The Inside of the White Slave Traffic (1913)

Director:

Frank Beal

Writers:

Frank Beal (story)
Samuel H. London (story)

Release Date:

8 December 1913 (USA)

Genre:

Short | Drama

Plot:

A dramatization of the methods in which young women are abducted or otherwise procured for prostitution. |

Plot Keywords:

Prostitution | White Slavery

Cast

Ninita Bristow	...	Immigrant
Edwin Carewe	...	Procurer
Virginia Mann	...	Victim
Elinor O. Peterson
Jean Thomas	...	Procurer's sweetheart
Nettie Hechter	...	Bit Part in Restaurant (uncredited)

Directed by
Frank Beal		(as Frank V. Beal)

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Frank Beal		story
Samuel H. London		story

Produced by
Samuel H. London	....	producer

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Abraham Canter	....	assistant director

Production Companies

• Moral Feature Film Co.

Distributors

• Sociological Research Film Company (1913) (USA) (theatrical)
• Kino Lorber (2012) (USA) (DVD) (included in The Devil's Needle & Other Tales of Vice and Redemption)
• Kino Video (2012) (USA) (DVD) (Blu-Ray)

Runtime:

28 min

Country:

USA

Color:

Black and White

Sound Mix:

Silent

Filming Locations:

Denver, Colorado, USA

Company:

Moral Feature Film Co.

Trivia:

Samuel H. London was sued in 1920 by one Nettie Hechter, whose husband's restaurant was used as a location in the film. Mrs. Hechter had also appeared in the film. She objected that her husband's restaurant was portrayed as a front for recruiting prostitutes, a depiction that not only was wrong but unsanctioned by herself or her husband. She won her case.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007)